I’ve now read it twice, and what leaps out for me is the absence of any acknowledgement that what is being contested here is, at least in part, the question of consent.https://twitter.com/douthatnyt/status/991739548269973504 …
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Because, yes, ancient traditions about monogamy and enforcing marriage as a social norm were largely about making sure all the women were "fairly" divvied up among the men
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Women were told you have to marry *somebody* or risk the untold horror of spinsterhood Once you got married, you had to service your husband sexually, and only your husband That way every man gets his "share" of sex and reproduction
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And every man, however lowly his station among other men, gets that rush of power of being the "master" of his household and his wife and children It keeps society stable by keeping shitty men happy
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This isn't snark, at all, this was openly stated, then and now This is what patriarchy is, this is built into its DNA
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